1. LInX Rocky Mountain Law Enforcement Information Exchange
Sponsored by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service

2. Rules to Remember
LInX/D-DEx and Remote Systems (i.e. NDEx) CAN NOT be used for the following:
General Licensing, Permits or Benefit Eligibility, including liquor, taxi, exotic dancer, gun, welfare or disability benefits.
Non-Criminal Justice Employment purposes (daycare, school, city employees)
Background or Security Clearance Investigations
Self-Inquiries, curiosity searches or browsing, such as neighbors, celebrities, family, friends.

3. Rules to Remember, cont.
If Information from LInX/DDEx or Remote Systems (i.e. NDEx) is USED for Probable Cause, the LE Agency must Validate and Obtain Permission from the Agency that owns the Information. Also obtain the Official Report from the Record Owning Agency.
Temporary Printing of LInX/DDEx or Remote Systems (i.e. NDEx) is for 72 hours only as allowed by the Region Governance Boards. Some say NO PRINTING. If there is not a PRINT BUTTON on the document, you may not print.
Purpose Codes and Justifications
Purpose Codes Required for Searches: (C=Criminal, J=Emp for Your Agency, A= Do not Use)
Justifications Required for Searches: Case Numbers, incident number, arrest number, warrant number, booking, project name, or if no direct number, details of search must be included. If a search is on behalf of an individual and/or agency, name and agency must be included with the case number.

4. Rules to Remember, cont.
Law Enforcement Purposes Only - Including, but not necessarily limited to:
Law enforcement investigations (Purpose Code C)
Pretrial Release investigations (Purpose Code C)
Intake investigations (Purpose Code C)
Correctional institution investigations (Purpose Code C)
Pre-sentence investigations (Purpose Code C)
f. Supervision investigations (Purpose Code C)
Criminal justice employment BI?s for your LE agency only (Purpose Code J)(NOTE: Federal Agencies in CA, HI, RM LInX may not do ANY Employment Backgrounds.)
Data Administration Management (Purpose Code C)
Training (Purpose Code C)

5. Getting Started
Contact either Alyce Reichardt or Beth Hall to be assigned a username and password.
You’ll have to immediately reset your password and create security questions when you log into the system for the first time.

6. Important Query/Search Tools to Know:
WILDCARDS
In LInX, the wild card is a % (percentage sign):
Examples:
J%, first name starting with a J as in James, John or Jerry
KIM%, first name starting with Kim as in Kimberly, Kimmy or Kimber
CENT% STREET: Street name that stars with Cent, Central, Center and Centre.
%wood, all words ending with wood such as Lakewood, Oakwood, Greenwood or Pinewood
4%SP68%, Partial plates where someone may say “something like this” or included these
For Different Spellings:
Ta%er can be “Taser” or Tazer”
Corvette can be “Corvett%, Covert% or %vett

7. Important Query/Search Tools to Know, cont.:
Boolean Characters
AND: Results containing all search terms on each document will be returned. Not necessarily together.
Example: using the words RED AND CORVETTE will not necessarily show the words Red and Corvette together as in RED CORVETTE
OR: Results containing either of the search terms on each document will be returned.
For example: RED OR CORVETTE will show every document with the words Red and Corvette or both Red and Corvette
AND NOT: Eliminates results contained after the word NOT such as:
Murder and not knife
“ “: Nests words together, such as “Cold Case”
( ): Allows search of terms nesting in the parentheses, such as Robbery and (Knife or Gun) and means that all search results that contain Knife and/or Gun as long as the document contains robbery as well

8. Home Page

9. Query History – review queries/searches you’ve already completed
My LInX – Your “account” settings
System Administration – This is primarily for LInX administrators, they can manage users and edit contact information
LInX & N-DEx Audits
Query Tools – this will take you to where you’ll query/search
Feedback – questions, comments or complaints, go here
Info Center – Detailed system information, training & etc.

10. Setting Up Preferences

11. Click on “My LInX”

12. Click “Manage Watch List”
This is where you will have LInX run a person, vehicle, telephone number or address & notify you if there is a LE contact for that entity. Or if someone else queries that specific entity.
Once you’re done, click on “Back to Home” to go back to your home page OR you can just click on your web browser's “back” button.

13. Click on “My LInX

14. Click on “Set Preferences”

15. Make the Following Changes
Search Results Increment: Change to 1000
Search results per page: change to 100
Search Results Columns:
Add incident type & incident summary
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK ON “SAVE”
Click on your “back” button on your web browser or click “Back to Home” and then on “MY LINX”

16. Click on “My LInX”

17. Click on “User Agreements”

18. Please read and accept all of these items!
Once completed, click on “Back to Home”

19. Click on “My LInX”

20. Click on “Neighborhoods”

22. Neighborhoods D-DEX LInX California LInX Carolinas LInX Federal
LInX Florida Regional
LInX Gulf Coast
LInX Hawaii
LInX Midwest
LInX NCR (National Capital Region)
LInX Northeast
LInX Northwest
LInX Rio Grande
LInX Rocky Mountain *
LInX Southeast
LInX Virginia
United States Capital Police

23. System Status

24. New to LInX

25. How to Conduct a Search/Query

26. Click on “Query Tools”

27. Click on “All Search”

29. This dropdown menu allows you to pick:
Criminal Justice (c)
Criminal Justice Employment (J)
Administrative File Maintenance
You MUST enter a Case Report Number, Calls for Service Report Number, Type of Case or specific reason for the query. Please refer to earlier slides for details.

30. First, make sure you identify your purpose code and then enter your justification.
Next, enter in the name of the person you are trying to find or any other details you are looking for.
You can use as much or as little details as you’d like.
But remember, too few gives you too much and too little gives you nothing.

31. Results